Powered by Podbean.com It’s been a month or so since we got the wheels rolling on our plan to provide you with regular podcasts. Today, the very first No Depression podcast is up on iTunes for your listening pleasure. We’ll […]
Powered by Podbean.com It’s been a month or so since we got the wheels rolling on our plan to provide you with regular podcasts. Today, the very first No Depression podcast is up on iTunes for your listening pleasure. We’ll […]
As you may recall, I recently spent a soggy weekend at Seattle Center catching some great live music at the annual Bumbershoot festival. One of the first best bands on my schedule were the Old 97s, whose frontman and bass […]
On August 25, Rounder Records released a four-disc box set of rare Woody Guthrie recordings titled My Dusty Road. It’s a 54-track collection, including some songs which have never been released before, and the sound quality is impeccable. There’s a […]
Bumbershoot is easily the biggest music festival of the year here in Seattle, and we have quite a few in these parts. (Of course, there’s also film, comedy, and visual arts at Bumbershoot, not to mention the highly notable Flatstock […]
The Huffington Post shared a letter today which Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) wrote to a physician-activist who asked him which songs could champion the current movement for healthcare reform. He makes an interesting point, choosing “This Land Is […]
Six months ago, in a very ceremonious phone call, Kyla and I each clicked a little box on a web page, opening the flood gates, so to speak, on this new version of NoDepression.com. We had less than 100 members […]
The Devil Makes Three, in case you’re unfamiliar, is a Santa Cruz-based trio (guitar, banjo, bass) whose music spans pretty much anything that can justifiably hang under the roots music umbrella – country, ragtime, bluegrass, blues…all with a punk rock […]
Eleni Mandell is somewhat of a songwriter’s songwriter, by which I mean she opens herself to whatever creative impulse happens to emerge, even if it’s wantonly divergent from the one which emerged the last time she put pen to paper […]
The below is an obituary on Jim Dickinson – the Southern music legend who passed away last week – by Chris Morris: Chalk it up to my engagement with musical history, but I tend to fixate on the passing of […]
**NOTE: This contest is now closed. Congratulations to all our winners. Stay tuned for more contests in the coming months! Last week, we announced we were teaming up with the fine folks at Lost Highway Records to give out ten […]
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